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Food on Board - Dave O'Connell, Torpedoman 2nd Class, 1943-1945
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<span class=transcription data-start=0 data-end=3>Interviewer: How was the food?</span><span class=transcription data-start=3 data-end=8>O'Connell I thought it was alright because I was the youngest of 11 children, and the working people ate first, </span><span class=transcription data-start=8 data-end=14>so I got pretty much what was on the table when we were growing up. </span><span class=transcription data-start=14 data-end=18>I never was a fussy eater. And there were times </span><span class=transcription data-start=18 data-end=28> that we just had beans, beans, beans but we couldn't catch up with the supply ship so that's what you ate. </span><span class=transcription data-start=28 data-end=32>There were times when we were traveling so fast and so long </span><span class=transcription data-start=32 data-end=39>and we had the flour on board ship that the bakers were to make bread. </span><span class=transcription data-start=39 end>44> Every day they were to make bread and everything else. And positivity the flour had boll weevils. </span><span class=transcription data-start=44 data-end=48> and they'd make the bread and you'd pick out a bug and you'd throw it away </span><span class=transcription data-start=48 end 52> but it didn't mean anything. And this is the way these are the conditions </span><span class=transcription data-start=52 end 56>you had to have and now everybody didn't accept it. </span><span class=transcription data-start=56 end 1:00> Myself,what did I care, as long as there was something to eat. </span><span class=transcription data-start=60 data-end=64> Didn't bother me a bit. I thought on the whole, the cooks and bakers </span><span class=transcription data-start=64 data-end=67>did the best they could and it was all fine with me. </span><span class=transcription data-start=67 data-end=70>I didn't have any complaints.</span>
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Boston National Historical Park, Code: BOST
Boston National Historical Park, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Latitude: 42.3734016418457, Longitude: -71.0557022094727
Latitude: 42.3734016418457, Longitude: -71.0557022094727
Served 1943-1945
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Organization: Boston National Historical Park
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Dave_OConnell_LIFE_Food.mp3
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